PLANS are being made for by-laws to combat an “epidemic of out-of-control horses” which is making many householders’ lives “a misery” in parts of Cork City.

HEROIN use has been blamed for a rise in street-level and petty crime in Cork, despite an overall reduction in crime figures.

GARDAÍ have warned householders in a Cork suburb to be on the lookout for a number of teenage scam artists who are claiming they’re doing a sponsored fast for their school.

THE 74-year-old whose remains were found in his home, with his hands and legs tied, may have been the victim of a robber or someone who bore a grudge against him.

GARDAÍ last night managed to overpower a 39-year-old man who had locked himself in his house with two loaded shotguns in Gort, Co Galway.